Summer's Edge
Object Details
- Author
- Howard Mehring
- Date
- 1959
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- Frame: 28 3/4 × 26 5/8 × 2 1/16 in. (73 × 67.6 × 5.3 cm)
- Caption
- Colors emerge from within the canvas in this “all-over” stain painting. Howard Mehring visited the studio of Helen Frankenthaler, the inventor of "soak-stain" painting, to learn about this technique in 1955. Like other members of the Washington Color School, he modified the technique before eventually moving into hard-edge geometric abstraction. Here, layered daubs of paint and blotting enable yellows and blues to peek through the predominantly orange composition. This gives the impression of a cloud of late summer heat that eventually gives way to the brilliant foliage of autumn.
- Accession Number
- 2014.0025.0002
- Type
- painting
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- acm_2014.0025.0002
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